Data on different seed harvesting methods used in grassland restoration on ex-arable land
Ágnes-Júlia Albert,
Ondřej Mudrák,
Ivana Jongepierová,
Karel Fajmon,
Ivana Frei,
Magdalena Ševčíková,
Jitka Klimešová,
Jiři Doležal
Affiliations
Ágnes-Júlia Albert
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Functional Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic; Corresponding author.
Ondřej Mudrák
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Functional Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic
Ivana Jongepierová
ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Bartolomějské nám. 47, 698 01 Veselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic
Karel Fajmon
ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Bartolomějské nám. 47, 698 01 Veselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic
Ivana Frei
OSEVA Development and Research Ltd., Hamerská 698, 756 54 Zubří, Czech Republic
Magdalena Ševčíková
OSEVA Development and Research Ltd., Hamerská 698, 756 54 Zubří, Czech Republic
Jitka Klimešová
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Functional Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic
Jiři Doležal
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Functional Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlaté stoce, 1, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
We present data of the grassland restoration experiment performed in the Bílé Karpaty Mts. (White Carpathians, Czech Republic) in dry species-rich meadows. First we harvested seed material in a preserved source meadow (donor site hereafter) by brush harvesting the vegetation once (B1 hereafter), brush harvesting three times during the season (B3 hereafter), and by cutting green hay (GH hereafter). Then we determined the species composition and seed quantity of the harvested material. Furthermore, we transferred the seeds to an experimental site on ex-arable land (receptor site hereafter), and monitored the development of the meadow communities in the following five years. Data are interpreted in: Á-J. Albert, O. Mudrák, I. Jongepierová, K. Fajmon, I. Frei, M. Ševčíková, J. Klimešová, J. Doležal, Grassland restoration on ex-arable land by transfer of brush-harvested propagules and green hay. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 272 (2019), 74–82. Keywords: Bílé Karpaty, Functional traits, Grassland, Old field, Monitoring, Seed addition methods, Seed dispersal
